It must have been a tough Monday night for the folks at the Nation News. After a decade of Owen Arthur hiding from the media, Barbados now had a Prime Minister willing to take questions live… and The Nation News wasn’t invited to the party.
Ah well… perhaps in an effort to convince “the David” that they wouldn’t ask any difficult questions in a media scrum, The Nation News covered the PM’s television appearance without mentioning anything about his promised integrity legislation, his failure to adopt a Ministerial Code or the conflict of interest surrounding his use of private jets.
Yup. The Nation News must wonder where its credibility went, and where its readership is going… but they obviously haven’t learned a thing.
Cliverton
Maybe The Nation News Was A Little Too Busy Reporting On a YouTube Viral Video…
Oh yeah… the editors and writers had no time or inclination to properly cover the Prime Minister’s little chat… but in the best tradition of the paper, they grabbed a story from the ABC News website: about a YouTube viral video.
Hey… we understand that sometimes you don’t feel like writing.
Once again, it is becoming difficult to see where the “professional” Barbados news media begins and ends. How is this for quality Barbados journalism on the day the Prime Minister gave his first big live interview…?
The Nation News: Dying Prof’s Last Lecture
4 Comments
April 16, 2008 at 1:41 am
Really BFP, you have moved on too soon.
April 16, 2008 at 2:36 am
I agree. BFP you are a genius, you know how to take the pressure off a subject. If I was managing The Nation, I would not give coverage to this ‘conversation with the public’ scenario. I must say that some interesting articles are coming from commenters that will keep this post going for additional days. 168 comments in a day will show the interest that this post is attracting.
As a matter of fact, your spin resembles Richard Cox shifting the pressure every time David Ellis quizzed the PM about his failed promises, like Integrity legislation, Ministers code, declaration of assets etc..
April 16, 2008 at 2:44 am
Its all about expectations.
If you expect nothing you get it …. guaranteed.
All the Nation is proving is that it expects nothing.
Sadly, many Bajans are in the same boat.
April 16, 2008 at 6:36 pm
BFP, you have changed the photo of the lapdog Nation newspaper. You made the doggy sit in a puddle of his own pee.
Nice touch!